potentialgeek - 11:15 am on Jun 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

I for one would like to see Google come up with a service that will make PayPal obsolete.

If anyone could do it, Google could. Look at the company. It's taking on Microsoft in new areas once Microsoft's turf, and there's no company too big for Google to fight or buy. I see nothing stopping Google from going after eBay. The folks at Google think big and a competitor for eBay and PayPal (which eBay bought) is a big idea.

"We've seen that the two companies have been on a collision course for a long time," said Derek Brown, an analyst for Cantor Fitzgerald. "This seems to be the latest and most bizarre twist."

EBay's ads showed up on Google 188.3 million times in March, according to comScore Networks, more than double the number run by Target, the No. 2 Google advertiser.

Didn't know Target was no. 2...

p/g